[Photo courtesy: Amitabh Bachchan] "If blood to be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing." ~ Mahatma Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) [Above] A video clipping of Gandhi's speech challenging Jan Smuts' racist law of segregation. From Attenborough's epic - Gandhi: The World Event . Richard Attenborough writes in his compilation book: "[Gandhi's] words struck me so forcibly that there and then I committed myself to attempt to make a film about Mahatma Gandhi - a commitment that changed the subsequent twenty years of my life." See also: Try http://youtu.be/e3tjIiWIkAQ for the clip on YouTube. Go here for Richard Attenborough's compilation book The Words of Gandhi .